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Category: Mexico’s Social Movements
Racism and anti-Zapatista fallacies
By: Gilberto López y Rivas This beginning of the year has been marked by an intensification –in social networks and communications media– of the campaign of lies, fibs or fake news against the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de…
Read MoreThe Snail’s walk
By: Raúl Romero* On August 17, 2019, the EZLN announced the end of the “Samir Flores Vive” campaign with which it went on the offensive and extended “the word and action of resistance and rebellion.” As a result of this,…
Read MoreINVITATION TO DAYS OF ACTION IN DEFENSE OF TERRITORY AND MOTHER EARTH
“WE ARE ALL SAMIR” SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD: First: Today more than ever, capitalism grows through war and the ongoing dispossession of all forms of life. The bad governments and the big capitalist businesses, all of…
Read MoreZapatistas call to confront the “Fourth Annihilation” with the exercise of autonomies
By: Isaín Mandujano San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas The indigenous Zapatista bases of support of the Zapatista National liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) and of Mexico warned today that they will continue resisting in the new era…
Read MoreThe 4T and the yes or yes for the Train they call Maya
By: Magdalena Gómez The final phase of the meteoric consultation organized by the federal government around the Train that they call Maya will take place on December 14 and 15. There are several substantive considerations that supporting the irregularities of…
Read MoreInvitation to a Gathering in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth
To the peoples of Mexico and of the world: To the national and international Sixth: To the CIG support networks: To the press: Capitalism is a world economic system that has, since its birth, operated against human life and our…
Read MoreCelebration of Life: A December of Resistance and Rebellion
SIXTH COMMISSION of the EZLN Mexico November 2019. To the women who struggle all over the world: To the National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Governing Council: To the National and International Sixth: To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion or whatever you…
Read MoreSince the start of 4T, repression against indigenous peoples increased, Marichuy denounces in Spain
By: Armando G. Tejeda Madrid María de Jesús Patricio, Marichuy, is on tour through Basque and Spanish cities with the charge from the National Indigenous Congress (Congreso Nacional Indígena, CNI) of denouncing the “increase in repression, murders and harassment” against…
Read MoreThe Isthmus is ours
By: Raúl Romero* The road from Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, to Juchitán, Oaxaca, is a true postcard of the “capitalist war:” the imposing oil wells are the prelude to the wind parks and their gigantic mills. At different points on the road,…
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